Biscuit cutter



Aug. 25', 1925. 1,550,959

c. J. HAGGSTROM BISCUIT CUTTER Fi led April 16, 1925 Patented Aug. 25, 1925.

CHARLES J'. HAGGSTROM, OF WARREN, PENNSYLVANIA.

BISCUIT CUTTER.

Application filed April 16, 1925.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLns J. HAGG- STROM, a citizen of the United States, residing at Warren, in the county of Warren and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Biscuit Cutters; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention aims to provide an exceptionally simple and inexpensive, yet an eiiicient and very desirable device for cutting or splitting biscuits and the like in two, and with this object in view, the invention resides in the novel subject matter hereinafter described and claimed, the description being supplemented by the accompanying drawing.

Figure 1 is a top plan view partly broken away.

Figure 2 is a central vertical longitudinal sectional View as indicated by line 22 of Fig. 1.

Figure 3 is a vertical transverse section on line 33 of Fig. 2.

The drawing above briefly described may be considered as disclosing the preferred form of construction, and while this construction will be hereinafter rather specifically described, it is to be understood that within the scope of the invention as claimed, numerous modifications may be made.

I provide a supporting structure including a pair of end members 1 connected at their lower portions by a pair of parallel side bars 2 and also connected by a central longitudinal bar 3. At their upper edges, the end members 1 are connected by a longitudinal plate 4:, all of the parts so far mentioned being preferably although not necessarily, formed integrally with each other.

A stationary table 5 is suitably secured between the side bars 2 and between the end members 1, and may well rest upon the central bar 3, said table being formed with an ovate opening 6. Received within the greater part of this opening, is a rotatable feed table 7 whose upper side is substan tially flush with the table 5, said feed table being disposed near one end of the supporting structure and being secured to a vertical shaft 8, which shaft is mounted in appropriate bearings 9 and 10 carried by the bar Serial No. 23,617.

3 and the plate 4; respectively. Horizontally spaced from this shaft 8 and mounted in the same 111E1111181,1S another vertical shaft 11 which is provided with a small pulley 12 at the edge of the table 7, said table and pulley being by preference peripherally grooved for engagement with a round belt which drives the table from the pulley. Near its upper end, the shaft 11 is provided with a relatively large pulley 14: driven by a belt 15 from another small pulley 16 which is carried by a vertical drive shaft 17, the two pulleys l4 and 16 being preferably grooved to receive the belt as shown. The shaft 17 is ofiset laterally from the shaft 8 and is preferably interposed between this shaft and the nearest of the end members 1, and below its pulley 16, said shaft carries a sharp-edged cutting disk 18 which may be adjusted to any desired extent above the rotatable feed table 7 This disk is of considerably less diameter than the table 7, so that the edges of the two are disposed in converging relation. A curved abutment 19 is suitably mounted on the supporting structure, at the edge of the table 7 and in converging relation with the edge of the disk 18.

Any suitable means, such as an electric motor 20 may be provided for driving the shaft 17, this motor being preferably mounted upon the plate 1, and if desired being provided with means of adjustment whereby the relation of the disk 18 with respect to the table 7 and abutment 19, may be varied.

Preferably, a pair of doors 21 are hinged to the side bars 2 to co-operate with these bars and the plate t in forming a complete enclosure for internal parts, when the de vice is not in use. By opening one of these doors, the biscuits or the like B may be placed on the slowly revolving feed table 7, as indicated in the drawing, and this table carries the biscuits to the rapidly rotating disk 18 which promptly cuts them in two and delivers the cut biscuits to the opposite side of the machine, from which they may. be removed when the other of the doors 21 is opened. During the cutting operation, the abutment 19 of course holds the biscuits in proper engagement with the knife or cutter 18.

As excellent results are obtainable from the details disclosed, they may well be followed. However, within the scope of the invention as claimed, modifications may be made as hereinbefore stated.

I claim:

1. A biscuit cutter comprising a rotatably mounted feed table, a cutter disk parallel. with and spaced above said table, said disk being of considerably less diameter than the table and being rotatably mounted on an aXis offset horizontally from the table axis, whereby the peripheral edges of the table and disk are disposed in converging relation, means for driving said disk and table in the same direction, and an abutment at the edge of the feed table disposed in converging relation with the edge of said disk.

2. A biscuit cutter comprising a rotatably mounted feed table, a vertical shaft at the edge thereof having a small pulley, a belt trained around said pulley and the edge of lo the table for driving the latter, a relatively large pulley on said shaft above the first named pulley, a vertical drive shaft over said table and offset laterally from the table axis, a small pulley on said drive shaft, a belt trained around this pulley and said relatively large pulley for driving the first named shaft, a cutter disk carried by the lower end of said drive shaft with its edge in converging relation with the edge of said table, and an abutment at the edge of the table in converging relation with the edge of the disk.

3. A structure as specified in claim 1; together with a stationary table recessed to receive said rotatably mounted table, the upper sides of the two tables being substantially flush.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto afiixed my signature.

CHARLES: J. HAGGSTROM. 

